Improvement in transmitting power-apparatus



dnitcd met @wat chimica RICHARD W. NORWOOD, OF COURTLA-ND, ALABAMA.

Letters Patent No. 108,173, dated October 1l, 1870 antedated October 1. 1870.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all 'whom 'it may concern.

Be it known. that I, RICHARD W. Nonwoon, of Courtland, in the county of Lawrence and State of Alabama, have invented a new and improved Means for Transmitting Iower; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the saine, reference being had to the accompanying drawing making a part ofthis specification, in which- Figure l is a side elevation, and

Figure 2 is a plan view.

'Ihis invention consists in the application of an intermediate system of' levers between a shaft rotated directly by the piston of a steam-engine and a iiywheel, from which machinery may he driven.

In the drawing- A is the shaft, that is driven directly by the piston of a steam-engine..

a. is a lever, having` one end bifurcated, between whose forks b b is a wrist-pin, projecting horizontally from a crank-arm of the shaftgA, so that, from the rotation of such shaft, the forked end of the lever receives vertical vibration.

c c are standards, in which is supported the fulcrum ot' the lever a.

(l is a rod, connecting the end of the short arin of the lever with the extremity of an arm, c, projecting from a rock-shaft, 7i, sustained in suitable bearings in the standards c.

yi is a second arm, extending downward from the rock-shaft, and connected, by a rod, k, jointed to its end, with a short crank, Z, ot the shaft m supported in pillar-blocks u n., and bearing the fly-wheel o.

By the above-described train of mechanism, the

Witnesses:

CHAs. A. PETTIT, SoLoN G. KEMON. 

